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See Gray (the correct orthography).

A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments. [Written also grayhound.]

See Graylag.

ucks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. "A brace of greyhounds." Shak. He is said to have shot . . . fifty brace of pheasants. Addison. A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church. Fuller. But you, my brace of lords. Shak.…

e characteristics by inheritance. Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak. Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter.

A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground. Some cut off the dewclaws [of greyhounds]. J. H. Walsh.

Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.

See Greyhound.

nd, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. Shak.

One of a mongrel breed of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

A dog that pursued his prey by scent, as distinguished from the greyhound.[Obs.]

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. [Obs.] Z. Grey.

ringing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.

To let loose in pursuit of game, as a greyhound. Lucento slipped me like his greyhound. Shak.